[Huck]

Xers had to fend for themselves from an early age

This is me.

[ShadowDancer]

That’t because you’re annoying.

[MNJohnnie]

Xers had to fend for themselves from an early age

Children who grew up in the richest, most secure period in US History "had to fend for themselves from an early age"? Talk about drama queen teen angst and hysteric nonsense.

[unspun]

OK fine, I'll see you after Feb. 5th. (it's like a temporary opus.

Hello, Huck!   ;-`

[RipSawyer]

This is me.
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It may be you but my experience with xers is that a large percentage of them expect their parents to take care of them forever. Maybe I am just unfortunate but the ones I know show less independence at thirty than most of my generation(world war II babies) did at twenty. Of course “fending for themselves” would have to be defined. For me it meant doing chores as soon as I was physically able, plowing with a draft horse, cutting wood with an axe, pulling one end of a five and a half foot crosscut saw etc. while still in grade school. I suspect that for the gen X group it might have meant making your own sandwich when you got home from school while Mom was still at work. I don’t know, you tell me. I am sure that if someone even permitted his children to do what my father required me to do as a pre-teen the state would take them away to a foster home.